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And Sorrow, Again... (FULL) · Psychonaut 4

EXERCISE 6 OF 73
Groove H
147 / 332 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
PART AE
PART AQ
PART AF
OUTRO
16 groovesEAEAQAZAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And Sorrow, Again... (FULL) on drums

327 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 59 BPM, 16:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
327
LENGTH
16:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-74, kick and crashes through bars 75-83, hi-hat through bars 84-144, silence through bars 145-154 and kick and crashes through bars 155-159, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 164-166, 168-170 and 172-173, and 14 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    168
    1...............2...............3...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
And Sorrow, Again... (FULL) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 82 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And Sorrow, Again... (FULL)?

59 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is And Sorrow, Again... (FULL) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

327 bars, about 16:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in And Sorrow, Again... (FULL)?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 82 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 327 BARS ANALYSED